Accolades
Norman Ravvin (Canadian Jewish Studies) took part in a conference May 4 and 5 at McGill on the work of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). An exceptional writer, illustrator and graphic artist, Schulz was shot to death in a street of his hometown, Drohobych, by the Gestapo in 1942.
The second edition of Composite Materials: Design and Applications, a book by Suong V. Hoa and Daniel Gay, has been published by CRC Press. The updated second edition includes original methods of analysis for various types of materials, such as composite beams, and a chapter devoted to thick laminated composites.
A symposium on fear was held May 9 at the University of Toronto as part of the joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and the American Ethnographic Society (AES). Sima Aprahamian (Sociology/Anthropology, Simone de Beauvoir Institute) looked at the 1915 Armenian genocide through a novel called Sosi, by Linda Ghan, who taught at Concordia. Karin Doerr (CMLL, Simone de Beauvoir) presented a paper that explores fear induced by certain German words used during the Nazi period.
Congratulations to two students in Études françaises. Josée Malenfant won the Prix Mary-Coppin from OTTIAQ (Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec) for her excellence as an undergraduate in a translation program. Marie-Douce St-Jacques, doing an MA in littératures francophones et résonances médiatiques, won the Prix Pierre-et-Yolande Perrault, a $5,000 prize for writing in the field of theatre, cinema, radio or television.
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Film studies professor Peter Rist was a guest panelist at the first Hong Kong Film Festival and conference at the University of Toronto earlier this month. Five books on Chinese cinema were published in the last year for which Rist wrote chapters, and he has just written an endorsement for Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema for the publisher, Hong Kong University Press.
The Chinese consul in Ottawa has donated 35 film prints of classic films to Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Rist reports, “They include a sufficient number of significant titles, e.g., works of the 1980s ‘fifth generation’ who were educated after the Cultural Revolution and earlier classics of the 1950s and 1960s. We will now be able to teach the History of Chinese Film on a regular basis.”
Ollivier Dyens, chair of the Department d’Études françaises, continues to pursue his métier as a poet. His series of poems Un millier d'êtres vivants was shortlisted for the Prix littéraires de Radio-Canada in the poetry section.
John Jackson (Sociology), a founding researcher in the Centre for Broadcasting Studies, will receive the Canadian Sociological Association’s Outstanding Service Award at its annual meeting at the University of Saskatchewan on May 30. He has been an active member of the Association since 1966, serving as editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology and president of the Association. In 1990 he received the Association’s Outstanding Contribution Award in recognition of scholarly merit.